{"id":3973,"date":"2019-12-19T08:35:02","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T16:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rtcsnv.com\/news\/?p=3973"},"modified":"2020-02-13T16:13:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T00:13:37","slug":"rtc-helps-disabled-man-overcome-the-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/rtc-helps-disabled-man-overcome-the-odds\/","title":{"rendered":"Local man regains independence and beats the odds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Deary was at a loss when he woke up blind one day. A rare type of glaucoma left him with only 5% vision in both eyes. He knew the odds were against him, but Charles didn\u2019t give up \u2013 he had persistence fueling his drive to overcome this setback. He searched for the resources needed to get help and then he found the RTC. Watch his story:<\/p>\r\n<p><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe class=\"lazyload\" title=\"Overcoming the Odds: The story of Charles Deary\" width=\"1100\" height=\"619\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%271100%27%20height%3D%27619%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%201100%20619%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%271100%27%20height%3D%27619%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/le4GSc2jne4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Deary was at a loss when he woke up blind one day. A rare type of glaucoma left him with only 5% vision in both eyes. He knew the  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":3984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[89],"class_list":["post-3973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-paratransit"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}